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September 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
“Pardon me for saying so, sir, but it seems to be a reasonably straightforward syncopated 5 / 4 time signature.”…
An interesting coincidence pointed out by a sharp-minded reader: “I can’t help but notice that the same Wall Street guys who engineered the current financial crisis and this bailout are exactly the same guys who thought the Dartmouth board was…
Are you called Joann? Did you recently give a sizable donation in my name to a worthy cause? Are we lunching this Sunday? If you are among the thousands who satisfy these requisites, send me a note, won’t you?…
Isn’t it cute that Dartmouth’s Office of Residential Life has recently changed the name of its fratboy-control unit from the CFS/UGS Office, for “Coed, Fraternity, Sorority, Undergraduate Society,” to the GLOS Office, for “Greek-Letter Organizations and Societies?” Let me say…
For those of us who hope that one the bright spots in a potential Obama presidency might be a reassessment of the way in which American conducts foreign policy, David Weigel at Reason warns that we may have another thing…
For today’s edition of The Dartmouth, a reporter managed to coax the following out of Dartmouth President James Wright: Somebody sitting around writing a blog site speculating about things can have as much credibility as somebody speaking authoritatively based on…
The National Association of Scholars has details. The college chaplain at U. Mass-Amherst is Kent Higgins. Like chaplains at many colleges, he is more than an administrator for campus faith organizations; call him a community organizer, bucking up the events,…
This article is painful for me to post about on a number of levels. Not only did the featured player, Mark DeRosa, go to U. Penn, but the Cubs are currently playing the Mets in an extremely important four-game series….
This past spring Dartblog was pleased to be named America’s best college blog by America’s Future Foundation in its first annual contest. There was a gala in Washington which I regretfully could not attend (although this page’s acolytes attended the…
HarperCollins kindly sent over a review copy of Peggy Noonan’s “Patriotic Grace,” which is being released soon on the Collins imprint and will undoubtedly be very widely read. I’ll put down a few thoughts anon….
The New York Times today featured a special section: Business in Green, which I thought was a smashing success, a bunch of great articles. My favorite article here about an entrepreneur who is putting together a whole line of “upcycled”…
Some unfortunate in New Haven has spent the freshening days of autumn composing this little epistle, now being distributed around Hanover….
If you are still having trouble with that whole weaning thing, never fear! PETA has now found a socially acceptable way for you to partake of breast milk past the age of one. They are urging Ben & Jerry’s to…
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October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but… -
October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…